I spent much of the runtime contemplating what the elephant represents. My best guess was that the elephant represents complacency, stagnation, and apathy.
“Life just won’t get better. It’s all about agony. That agony has begun since you were born. You think that a new place will change your fate? It’s bullshit. New place, new sufferings.”
While this still could be true, it wasn’t until the final few scenes when I realized that we were probably never actually going to…